(Two weeks later) Welp?

It was a bad night for the GOP, but they did gain control of the House.

Warnock is +4 in the polling I’ve looked at, however, as it turns out, Warnock is kind of a decent man, which makes me think the Universe will conspire to ensure he loses.

---

It seems certain that Biden will run again; I think that is a bad idea. Thus concludeth my thoughts, post-election. (2022)

---

I have been working on endgames over the last month or so, and have particularly found the pawn endgames the most interesting. The Knight and the Rook endgames are interesting, but it seems like the pawn endgames hold the most variety. In the course of studying, I learned the name Nikolai Grigoriev–a name I’d not learned in twenty (+) years of mucking about on the chessboard–and found his studies to be wildly informative, almost a hundred years after his final breath.

Obviously, there is no way to relay all the positions or ideas I’ve looked at, so perhaps the most practically powerful idea is below. White to move and win (decisively).

Keep in mind that if Kd4, Black has …Kxb4 and will take the white pawn at f2 right after you capture the black pawn on h7 (assuming you don’t try to take on d5).

–30–